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Old 09-05-2008, 02:18 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Old 09-05-2008, 02:20 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Toggle switch plate removal (better before or after)

Better with toggle switch plate, but whateva floats ya boat!
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Re: Toggle switch plate removal (better before or after)

I am more of a purist I like it with, but if you like it without, it's your guitar.

It doesn't affect the sound so who cares what we think.
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Re: Toggle switch plate removal (better before or after)

A third choice should have been offered: Who cares?
This subject has been covered many, probably dozens of times.

It just doesn't matter!
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Old 09-05-2008, 05:53 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Toggle switch plate removal (better before or after)

oooh damn hard to answer

mine is off as well, but thats only becuase its that nasty pinkish creme, i want a regular white one
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Re: Toggle switch plate removal (better before or after)

I say with... or change to a black one
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I like them on
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If you take it off, the pickguard has to go to! Looks good either way, but I like both on or both off.
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On...pickguard & the toggle ring.
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on that color "on".
this is something i messed with on my guitar and i decided it just didnt look right without it.
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Re: Toggle switch plate removal (better before or after)

I have 2 Les Pauls one with and the other without.

Looks better on
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Re: Toggle switch plate removal (better before or after)

how about a pic with the pickgaurd off as well? paint a lil more of a picture for us, since the whole idea is probably to show off more top
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Re: Toggle switch plate removal (better before or after)

what does it take to remove that?
i was thinking of doing all black&cream.
once its off, is it off for good?
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what does it take to remove that?
i was thinking of doing all black&cream.
once its off, is it off for good?
To remove the toggle switch plate i use a thin plectrum to prise it off and you can put them back on if you want.

I have 4 LPs without pickguard and toggle switch and 2 with, depends on the guitar itself to me.
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If the top were a solid color and not a burst, I'd say off. But, since it's a burst, leave it on.
IMO, YMMV, yadda yadda yadda.
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Looks good. I like having my switch plate on though.
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Re: Toggle switch plate removal (better before or after)

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If you take it off, the pickguard has to go to! Looks good either way, but I like both on or both off.
Ditto ^^^^ that .... nothing more to say
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Re: Toggle switch plate removal (better before or after)

if you take off the pickgaurd and leave the ring off, you will have a psuedo prs thing going on there!

and we all know prs guitars are art in music
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If you take it off, the pickguard has to go to! Looks good either way, but I like both on or both off.
Completely agree, either one way or another. Personally, i like it on better unless its one color
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If you take it off, the pickguard has to go to! Looks good either way, but I like both on or both off.


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Ditto ^^^^ that .... nothing more to say
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Leave it on....take it off....blah, blah, blah.....WHO CARES????
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Leave it on....take it off....blah, blah, blah.....WHO CARES????
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Re: Toggle switch plate removal (better before or after)

what do you like the best? Take a picture with it on, and off with the guitar sitting in the exact same position. then tape both pictures to your bathroom mirror so you see both of them every day... also, it wouldn't hurt to tape another set of them to your refrigerator door as well... then, leave them there for exactly 2 years... keep a journal and write down which one you thinks looks the best each day. after the two years are up, tally up the results and see which one has the most votes... that will be your obvious choice and you can be confident that your doing the right thing, which ever it may be! .... but, to answer your question in short, if it were me id leave it on. i think they look cool when taken off if the guitars a solid color (black or gold top) .... otherwise i like them on. .... id use the 2 year picture comparison method though if i were you, just to be sure.
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what do you like the best? Take a picture with it on, and off with the guitar sitting in the exact same position. then tape both pictures to your bathroom mirror so you see both of them every day... also, it wouldn't hurt to tape another set of them to your refrigerator door as well... then, leave them there for exactly 2 years... keep a journal and write down which one you thinks looks the best each day. after the two years are up, tally up the results and see which one has the most votes... that will be your obvious choice and you can be confident that your doing the right thing, which ever it may be! .... but, to answer your question in short, if it were me id leave it on. i think they look cool when taken off if the guitars a solid color (black or gold top) .... otherwise i like them on. .... id use the 2 year picture comparison method though if i were you, just to be sure.
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BEFORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! put it back on!!
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Just a matter of preferance.. Go with what YOU like...
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Just a matter of preferance.. Go with what YOU like...
Yes, and in two years switch it back.
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So what did you end up doing?
You have a pretty decent poll and a lot of opinions.
Plus you didnt even state your own opinion...
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Re: Toggle switch plate removal (better before or after)

I tried doing the same thing because I wanted to mod my standard into a custom, but there was glue and it left a horrible residue that I couldn't get off...
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